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Judges and Judiciary


Orange County Posts Online Court Survey

May 10, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - Have a gripe or compliment for the Orange County Superior Court? Attorneys who use its seven justice centers can s...


Large Firms


LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has welcomed back labor and entertainment attorney Jeffrey ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution


Efficiency Expert

May 10, 2001
By Columnist

One of the challenges of presiding over complex arbitrations is providing the parties the process they need without burdening ...


Personal Injury & Torts


Physicians Unhealed

May 10, 2001
By Eron Yehuda

In the end, the doctors wound up hurting themselves. In what could be the first case of its kind to go to trial, a jury on Mar...


Litigation


Lawsuit Challenges High-School Exit Exam

May 10, 2001
By Jill Boekenoogen

LOS ANGELES - Most disabled students will fail the new high-school exit exam because of the discriminatory manner in which the...


Entertainment & Sports


Artists Sue MP3.com for Copyright Infringement

May 10, 2001
By Marisa Navarro

LOS ANGELES - After settling with the major record labels, and even a minor one, MP3.com, an online provider of digital music,...


Litigation


Austrian Expatriate Can Sue in U.S.

May 10, 2001
By Donna Huffaker

LOS ANGELES - The American heir to paintings stolen by Nazis during World War II may fight to retrieve the paintings in a U.S....


Labor/Employment


SAN FRANCISCO - Firing an employee for business reasons cannot be classified as a firing due to deficient performance solely t...


Intellectual Property


SAN FRANCISCO - Executives of four of the seven new top-level domains recently approved by the Internet Corporation for Assign...


Criminal


Dispute Rages Over DUI Blood Test Technicians

May 10, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

VICTORVILLE - William Komar, 70, had just plowed his car into another vehicle on a desolate stretch of I-15 last December when...


Large Firms


SAN FRANCISCO - Seattle's oldest and largest firm, Preston Gates & Ellis, has brought two lawyers into its San Francisco o...


Criminal


Pursuing Predators

May 10, 2001
By Peter Blumberg

SAN FRANCISCO - Take a man who's served his prison time and now tell him he'll be locked up indefinitely in a state hospital a...


Labor/Employment


Screen Actors Guild Sets Sights on Striking a Deal

May 10, 2001
By Katherine Gaidos

LOS ANGELES - One down, one to go. Now that the Writers Guild of America has reached a tentative labor agreement with the Asso...


Bankruptcy


PG&E Doesn't Want Ratepayer Committee

May 10, 2001
By Dennis Pfaff

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will formally object to the appointment of a committee to represent ratepayers ...


Law Practice


Design Approach

May 9, 2001
By Columnist

Dear Anne: Our law firm's Web site was developed several years ago. The information is current, but it is starting to look dat...


Administrative/Regulatory


Traditional law enforcement never wants anyone outside the fraternity to investigate their conduct because they feel secure th...


Administrative/Regulatory


FPPC Backs Tough L.A. Rules

May 9, 2001
By Linda Rapattoni

SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission ruled Monday that the Political Reform Act does not bar the city of...


Large Firms


The satellite office of a major law firm dominated by male litigators recently was compared to a sports bar by one of its asso...


State Bar & Bar Associations


No E-Mail, Web Create 'Disaster'

May 9, 2001
By Erik Cummins

SAN FRANCISCO - It was almost as if a fire or an earthquake had hit the Bar Association of San Francisco. Without warning, the...


Judges and Judiciary


Bay Area Gets 2 New Judges

May 9, 2001
By Donna Domino

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran federal prosecutor John W. Kennedy and San Francisco personal injury and medical malpractice specialis...


Litigation


SACRAMENTO - A year has passed since a scandal over mishandled Northridge Earthquake funds rocked the state Department of Insu...


Litigation


Flexible Funds

May 9, 2001
By Columnist

Guideline child support Dissomaster calculations - sometimes referred to as "those dang things" (the "apt phrase" of the tria...


Criminal


Extradited Mexican Pleads Not Guilty

May 9, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - The first Mexican citizen to be sent to the United States for trial since the Mexican Supreme Court in January aut...


Law Practice


City Files Complaint Against Olson's Lawyer

May 9, 2001
By Anne La Jeunesse

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney has filed a misdemeanor complaint against attorney Shawn Snider Chapman, who repre...


Civil Rights


Man Sues City Over Cat-Dog Fight

May 9, 2001
By Claude Walbert

SAN DIEGO - Never mind the dog. Richard R. Espinosa claims that it was his own civil rights that were violated Nov. 16 when th...


Government


Panel OKs Family's Suit Against CHP

May 9, 2001
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle

RIVERSIDE - The California Highway Patrol is not immune from liability in a fatal crash that occurred on a remote desert road ...


Criminal


Design Firm Settles Whistle-Blower Suit

May 9, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - An Orange County-based engineering firm will pay the U.S. government $8.2 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsu...


Government


Defeated Candidate Faces Felony Charges

May 9, 2001
By Michael Jonathan Grinfeld

SANTA ANA - A candidate for the Yorba Linda City Council is scheduled to be arraigned today on charges of lying about his plac...


Product Liability


Calculating the Cost of Secrecy

May 9, 2001
By Columnist

Secrecy agreements are standard for large corporations in product liability lawsuits. The agreements are reached by plaintiffs...


Law Practice


LOS ANGELES - California law bars attorneys from seeking payment for representing themselves in disputes with clients, but co-...